Tag-fastener



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.. WILLIAM H. D. LUDLOW, OF TECUMSEH, NEBRASKA.

TAG-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,407, dated March 26, 1889.

H Application filed July 9, 1888. Serial No. 279,384. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. D. LUD- LOW, of Tecumseh, in the county of Johnson and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and Improved Tag-Fastener, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists in an improved instrument for putting tags on goods of various kinds, both of light and heavy texture, including cloths and carpets, and which not only serves to make the necessary hole through the goods, but forms a convenient means for placing and holding the string or thread which carries the tag in position, and for drawingsaid string or threa'd through the goods to provide for the attachment of the tag, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

This invention essentially differs from a pair of scissors having at the end of one of its blades a bent tagging extension pointed and having an eye for carrying the tag, thread, or cord.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of my improved tagging-tool after it hasbeen projected through a piece of cloth and suitably manipulated to receive the thread or cord of the tag, and Fig. 2 is a View of said tool or instrument in part after it has been closed on the tag thread or cord preparatory to drawing it through the goods.

The instrument mainly consists of two crossing or tong-like levers, A A, united where they cross by a pivot, b, and having their longer arms or legs formed with loops 0 c, for the purpose of receiving the thumb and forefinger of the hand of the operator through them. The

forward or shorter arms, a a, of these levers are of pointed construction at their outer ends, and the one of them, a, is made somewhat shorter than the other one, a, and said two arms a a are constructed so that when the instrument isclosed the shorter arm, a, will fit into a groove in the longer arm, a, and said closed arms will then form a pointed stout needle or awl-like projection having a divided opening formed by meeting cross-grooves s s in the inner sides of the arms a a.

To use the instrument it is held by the thumb and forefinger passed through the loops 0 0, like a pair of scissors, and first closed. Its forward closed pointed arms, a a, are then made to puncture and project through the cloth or material, C, to be tagged from the un der side of the goods, and afterward the levers A A opened by spreading thethumb and forefinger apart. This opens or separates the pointed arms a a on the upper or outer side of the cloth, as shown in Fig. 1, and allows the tag thread or cord eto be entered between them, and upon closing the instrument to be received within the grooves s s, as shown in Fig. 2, and on drawing the instrument out of the cloth causing said thread or cord to be drawn through the cloth, after which the instrument is opened again' and released from the cord and the tag passed through the looped cord, as usual, to secure it to the cloth.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The Within-described tag fastening or attachin g instrument, consisting of the pivoted crossing levers or limbs A A, having forward and shorter pointed arms, a a, of unequal length and cross-grooved to receive and hold the cord when closed one againstor within the other, substantially as specified.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, an instrument for attaching tags, consisting of the pivoted levers AA, having their shorter arms, a a, pointed and formed with notches s and their longer arms provided with loops 0, the arms a a"being of unequal length and the longer one grooved longitudinally to receive the shorter one, as set forth.

' \V. H. D. LUDLOW.

Witnesses:

P. V. R. DUFOE, D. C. ELLswoRTH.. 

